No Forced Labour For Disabled!
The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) plans to make disabled people work for no pay for charities, corporations and other firms, said Disabled...
Teachers strike today – worst funding cuts since 1970s
‘SCHOOLS are facing the worst cuts in funding since the 1970s,’ the NUT warned as teachers at every school in the country walked out...
University Of Arts London Occupied!
STUDENTS at University of Arts London (UAL) are in indefinite occupation of London College of Communications (LCC) in Southwark to oppose Elephant & Castle...
Abbas calls for immediate end to Israeli occupation of Palestine
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has called for an immediate end to what he described as Israeli occupation and aggression in Gaza, the West Bank,...
From New Labour Spin To Union Busting
GMB trade union members demonstrated yesterday against the union-busting propaganda for Asda Wal-Mart being supplied by public relations company Portland PR, which was set...
Large scale assault on northern West Bank
ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) continued a large-scale assault on the Tubas governorate in the northern West Bank for the third consecutive day on Friday,...
PCS gearing up for massive jobs fight
Civil servants union, the PCS, is gearing up for action to fight over 300,000 public sector job cuts, planned by the Tories. PCS NEC...
ICC MUST HOLD THE ISRAELI LEADERS AND SOLDIERS ACCOUNTABLE! says Human Rights Monitor
A NEW report documenting several violations of international humanitarian law committed by Israel during its recent military attack on the Gaza Strip from 10-21...
Tax Hikes & Cuts Come In
TODAY, April 1, the first day of the new financial year, a barrage of vicious cuts and hikes come in attacking the living standards...
Halt NHS Privatisation By Stealth!
THE Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has written to health minister Lord Howe expressing grave concern that the government is planning to privatise large...
Jobcentre Strike Solid
JOBCENTRE staff who deal with calls from people entitled to benefits and crisis loans went on strike yesterday over oppressive working conditions and unrealistic...
NATIONAL DEMO! – called by Unison to defend NHS
The Unison national delegate conference in Manchester yesterday voted to step up the fight to save the NHS and to call a national demonstration. Delegates...
‘Don’t lecture us about wage restraint’ – ‘the alarm bells are ringing!’ says Unite’s...
‘Don’t lecture us about pay restraint,’ the Unite and GMB unions retorted to appeals from Governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey yesterday,...
RUN ON NORTHERN CONTINUES! – double digit inflation on the way says Greenspan
YESTERDAY morning frantic savers once again laid siege to Northern Rock bank branches, determined to withdraw their savings, following the scenes over the weekend,...
SACK G4S demands Howard League
THREE G4S employees were arrested yesterday and are being held on suspicion of child neglect following an investigation into abuse at a young offenders...
Ambulance Cuts Are Costing Lives!
EAST of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) management operated a policy of downgrading target response times for 999 emergency calls from December 18th...
PM Johnson’s 5-point ‘Living with Covid’ plan
TORY PM Boris Johnson set out his five point plan for ‘Living with Covid’ yesterday saying that he expects the lifting of restrictions will...
Police tasering mentally ill!
TWO-THIRDS of all people Tasered by the police in England and Wales between 2010 and 2014 were identified as mentally ill. The figures were made...
Hamas to launch legal action against Tories! –After UK Parliament designates Hamas a ‘terrorist...
THE PALESTINIAN organisation that governs Gaza, Hamas, announced on Sunday that it will take legal action against the United Kingdom, which recently listed it...
100 Tories rebel over ‘Plan B’
JOHNSON’S ‘Plan B’ measures to attempt to slow the advance of the new Omicron strain of coronavirus only passed in Parliament yesterday with the...
Sarkozy Threatens Teachers With Anti-Union Laws
President Sarkozy threw down the gauntlet to the teaching unions immediately after the hugely successful national strike and demonstrations on Thursday. He shocked union...
FBU – 4 Days Strike Action
THE FBU is escalating its strike action tonight with four days of action in England beginning at 6pm in the sharpening fight over pensions. The...
‘we Have To Keep Chase Farm Open’
‘WE are having a good response to our picket today,’ North-East London Council of Action Secretary Bill Rogers told News Line at Chase...
Iran drives US and Israel back!
Iran’s top security body says the powerful Iranian military response as part of True Promise III forced the Israeli regime to halt its aggression unilaterally. The...
Week-long Ealing Medirest strike going strong!
THERE was a strong picket of 80 striking GMB domestic workers, porters and caterers at Ealing Hospital yesterday morning. The workers were in their fourth...
Eurozone In Recession!
The economy of the 15-nations eurozone has slumped into recession for the first time ever, EU data released yesterday revealed, with GDP falling 0.2%...
‘Last Ditch Talks’ Over NHS Pay
Health unions yesterday warned the government that if it fails to improve on its pay-cutting offer they will proceed with strike ballots. UNISON said: ‘New...
CONFIDENCE IS EVAPORATING! – say the CBI bosses
THE UK economy is ‘in a bad place, with confidence evaporating’, the head of the UK’s biggest employers’ organisation has warned. John Cridland, director general...
Gate Gourmet Loses BA Short-Haul Contract
Northern Foods has won the British Airways contract to supply meals and sandwiches for short-haul flights from Heathrow airport, replacing Gate Gourmet. Northern, the food...
AMBULANCE CRISIS: Patients are dying!
AN AMBULANCE staff shortage has reached such a critical point, GPs warn, that very young and elderly patients are dying before getting to hospital. This...
Oil $146 A Barrel – Gm Is Going Broke
The price of oil continued to soar yesterday, with Brent crude rising above $146 per barrel (p.b.) for the first time ever. Brent crude...
NATIONALISE BRITISH STEEL says Unite trade union
THE UNITE trade union yesterday urged ministers to take British Steel into public control if a deal cannot be struck between owners Greybull, its...
UCU Fights Mass Sackings
The University and College Union (UCU) has slammed Manchester College after it was revealed that it is paying its top earner almost £200,000, while...
No to ‘Son of a Dog’ Trump’s deal – Abbas
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has firmly rejected President Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ the details of which were announced yesterday evening. Abbas said: ‘Trump...
Record-breaking overcrowding – in both council & privately rented homes
UP TO THREE children are being crammed into single rooms in council homes, with families packed into flats like sardines, new figures confirm, with...
US ‘heinous act of aggression’
US FIGHTER planes attacked a Syrian Army post on Sunday evening, killing three Syrian soldiers and wounding 13 others in what has been condemned...
UK still set in law to leave EU on March 29
INDICATIVE votes will take place today, Tory Leader of the House of Commons, Andrea Leadsom confirmed yesterday afternoon, after which the Withdrawal Bill amendment...
Gate Gourmet Workers Rally
Gate Gourmet locked out workers are campaigning every day up until their first anniversary march and rally in Southall this Sunday, 20th...
‘No Medals, Badges Or Claps Just Pay Nurses 12.5% Rise!’
‘NO MEDALS, badges or claps this time – just pay nursing fairly’, a nursing union leader told Boris Johnson yesterday. The leader of the UK’s...
ON THE ROAD TO RUIN! – 4.5m self employed and ‘insidious’ zero-hours contracts
UK registered unemployment fell by 146,000 to 2.02 million in the three months to the end of July, official figures show. The figures do not...
Notts NUT strike action
Nottingham teachers held a second successful one-day strike yesterday against the City Council’s plan to impose a five-term year. Speaking ahead of yesterday’s strike, John...
Infection out of control – ‘Isolation exemptions will spread Covid-19’ – BMA stark warning!
STAFF isolation exemptions are absolutely the wrong answer to the government’s failure to control spiralling infection rates, says doctors’ union the BMA. Responding to news...
Unite ‘to fight’ Ford closures
THE Unite union yesterday vowed to fight the closures of Ford plants in Southampton and Dagenham. The notice of mass sackings came as prime...
‘NATIONALISATION IS NOT APPROPRIATE’ – for GM plants says national officer Osborne
NINE Vauxhall cars and vans from the 1960s to the present day came to London yesterday for a ‘drive-by’ of parliament ‘to showcase the...
Halt Zionist settlers’ heinous crimes in Palestine says PM Shtayyeh
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday denounced the ‘heinous crimes’ committed on Sunday by Zionist settlers in the northern West Bank town of Huwara...